Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...
G uillemots, black and white birds each measuring about a foot tall, cram together on Skomer Island to starve off predators ...
Nationally, this avian flu sickened at least 66 people in 2024, mostly dairy farmworkers who came in contact with diseased ...
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...
Why the results surprised anyone is itself a surprise. After the state of California began testing dairy herds for highly ...
As bird flu cases crop up across the country, here's what a food safety expert wants you to know about getting the virus from eggs, poultry, and dairy products.
A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.
The U.S. has developed a bird flu vaccine that can be prepared when needed. It’s not currently available because health ...
Genetic sequences of H5N1 bird flu viruses collected from a person in Louisiana who became severely ill show signs of development of several mutations thought to affect the virus’ ability to ...
The only other human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in 2022 and may not have caused any illness, with the CDC stating that the "detection may have been the result of contamination of the nasal ...
With 66 human cases and one death from bird flu in the current outbreak, there are several ways Americans could become sick.
A Louisiana patient hospitalized in critical condition with severe bird flu has died, the state health department said Monday ...